My new article on LinuxJournal.com:

"Unlike some other OS's, Linux almost never has to reboot… or so I was told when I first started learning about it. To illustrate the point, my mentor introduced me to an app that he ran on all of his servers called uptimed."   more>>

Today I was trying to get 64-bit Windows 7 onto a Dell Optiplex GX620 and needed the audio driver for it.  I found this page which pointed me at a Vista driver for the same sound card on Dell's FTP site (R145149.exe).  I downloaded this and let it extract to the default location but then canceled the installer.  From device manager I told Windows to look in C:\dell\drivers\R145149 and accepted one warning and now sound is working.  The original site also has instructions for the 32-bit version of Windows 7.

My new article on LinuxJournal.com.  The teaser is:


"Are you responsible for one or more Windows computers? If yes then the odds are really good that you have had to deal with cleaning viruses and malware. Did you know F-Secure offers a free Rescue CD built on Knoppix for just this purpose? Let's take a look at how easy the F-Secure Rescue CD is to use."

Just wanted to announce that I have another article published on LinuxJournal.com.  The teaser is below:

"Ever wanted to instantly have Drupal, Moodle, OTRS, MySQL, WordPress, Zimbra, Bugzilla, phpBB or a slew of other open source software packages up an running in a hassle-free manner to try out or available for rapid deployment? TurnKey Linuxgives you just that."

This is just a result of my playing around on wowarmory.com  This character is the one I am devoting the most time to right now.  The image below should update on a page refresh as my gear changes... should be interesting to see.

Just wanted to post a little something to let everyone know that I am now writing for LinuxJournal.com.  My first article is a How To entitled Leave the CDs in the Office.  Below is a copy of its teaser:

"There are few things more aggravating than going out to a coworker's office to work on their computer and finding that to fix it you need a CD that is sitting in your office. If you have ever experienced that, or would simply like to no longer need to tote that book of CDs with you every day, then this article is for you."

Entropy by Marc Liyanage has been updated since the last time I tried to get a real PHP for my Mac and I am happy to report that it now is designed for 10.5!  All hail the non-chopped down version Apple should have put out in the first place.  Now I again have the option of running things like Drupal on a Mac platform natively.